If you're not writing code, or computing some process, or having something run somewhere that does something, then move out of the way. A whole lotta code is still left to be written, computers still have a looooong way to go, there is an infinities worth of things to do with any single one of them, great and small alike.
So, like, write code.
(... what i should be doing instead of boing-nut'ing around on/....)
i could imagine it no so much as an 'optimization' device, but as a complete 'system-description' protocol machine.
in other words, i can not only embed codec details in my datastream to you, but at the beginning of it all, i can give you a 'cpu package' that you can use to run my custom codec, perhaps just once...
what interests me about the S5000 is, what of the S5500, &etc? do they have plans to segragate cores from each other in other ways - say by way of a 'certficate broker' chip, also on-board?
because if so, this could be a real boon for future media control, as long as the other reasons for this chips success actually are also fruitious, and results in a real market deployment.
being able to change not just instructions, but what those instructions mean, dynamically over a protected core, would give software a new protection mechanism, is what i'm trying to get at...
well, i could imagine a virus that would run on everything this CPU had in it, plus whatever other (legacy-by-then) CPU's are being 'emulated' in-circuit on it.
so, yeah, maybe one day my house 'environment control superserver' that comes with its own toaster, microwave, and sextoy fittings, gets a virus off the MegaSupraNet and infests my oric-1... well... i dunno...
"... find out what Max Headroom thinks about it, he'll probably know the answer..."
yeah, i could imagine this being more of a boost for crypto than anything else, actually. if you can dynamically hardware-assist certain parts of your bitstream, changing 'code' and 'data' states not just on one side of a set of registers, but on the other side as well, then it is the beginning of a whole new realm of hard crypto...
i have to wonder what sort of instruction sets they've got running... could I, for example, 'emulate' other architectures on it dynamically? I haven't quite penetrated their market-blurbs yet, but it sure would be nice to know what sort of apps and architectures they've already got running...
being code to being "on the chip" and that's sure to speed up the experienced speed.
first, where exactly is code run, if it isn't 'on a chip', and second, what? speed up the experienced speed?
you mean, as opposed to something like 'pretended speed', which is what i imagine you were using to measure your rapid desire to let your undoubtedly 'speedy' fingers get through your slashdot post without thinking...
... wake me up when i can buy a thousand of them for $10 a piece...
[okay, okay, so it'll be -hell- fun to design codecs and other protocols that can switch their chipset dynamically, yeah, but i'd need 1000's of them deployed to have a real reason to do it...]
Well, what can I tell you? Try googling for "entropic interface surface", "hardware out of box experience entropy", etc.
You'll find it, most likely, in some of the more contemporary design textbooks and/or trade publications. Entropic surfaces are pretty prevalent in design theory these days.
Sometimes the Internet isn't always leading edge of an info curve... and even when it is, there's always a bleeding edge... so I would give your google dependency a bit of a shake, though I'm a firm believer that even if you can't find it on google, you can find it with google, always...
... ew, is it just me, or does the new 'bar of soap' design really stink!
"Bar of Soap" is a design methodology that inherently is supposed to deteriorate, collect dust, and give the device an 'outdated feel and look' within 6 months time. On OOBE, it is supposed to feel like a bar of soap, give the user an intimacy like only a bar of soap can give you, and inspire that 'oooh, intimate toy' feeling. And then 6 months later, when it starts to get 'dirty', gives the user a desire to 'replace it with something new'...
The old, rugged case, even with years of grime and dirt, still didn't give you the 'replacement' feeling. BoS is a dirty consumer electronics design trick, and it sucks to see the TI's going that direction...
you keep worrying about stress, and i'll enjoy life when its good, which in my opinion is 99.9% of the time for those lucky enough not to have to de-polute their water by hand every day while the sun has barely started to shine...
you worked at a golf course, white boys most decadent waste of time, you got paid for it and yet, somehow, now see fit to consider that your life at that point was 'stressful'?!
i know this won't score points, but i have to say it: you are a whiny bitch.
sell all your posessions and buy yourself a one-way ticket to Mexico City, is about the only bit of advice, short of brash and rude insults, i feel i could profer, even in light of the fact that i know you're not asking for any...
Slashdot Mirror
TV!?!! TV?!! BAH!
;)
In *my* day, we only had paper to write our C code on, and no whitetape, so it had better be right the first time!
All this dynamic display stuff has been -terrible- on programming, I tell ya. One disappointment after the other...
hey i'd take a Commodore 16 over a VIC20 any day ...
... all that other advice:
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Write Code.
Treat it as the #1 thing you do.
If you're not writing code, or computing some process, or having something run somewhere that does something, then move out of the way. A whole lotta code is still left to be written, computers still have a looooong way to go, there is an infinities worth of things to do with any single one of them, great and small alike.
So, like, write code.
(... what i should be doing instead of boing-nut'ing around on
The point is that this chip might be able to mop the floor with the chips out now even if they're running at a much higher clock speed.
oh, okay, since we're talking 'might', its Totally Okay to say things like 'experienced speed'... yeah.
sheesh... what sort of goon looks at a CPU and goes 'whats its megahertz', anyway? passé!
i could imagine it no so much as an 'optimization' device, but as a complete 'system-description' protocol machine.
...
in other words, i can not only embed codec details in my datastream to you, but at the beginning of it all, i can give you a 'cpu package' that you can use to run my custom codec, perhaps just once...
what interests me about the S5000 is, what of the S5500, &etc? do they have plans to segragate cores from each other in other ways - say by way of a 'certficate broker' chip, also on-board?
because if so, this could be a real boon for future media control, as long as the other reasons for this chips success actually are also fruitious, and results in a real market deployment.
being able to change not just instructions, but what those instructions mean, dynamically over a protected core, would give software a new protection mechanism, is what i'm trying to get at
well, i could imagine a virus that would run on everything this CPU had in it, plus whatever other (legacy-by-then) CPU's are being 'emulated' in-circuit on it.
... well ... i dunno ...
so, yeah, maybe one day my house 'environment control superserver' that comes with its own toaster, microwave, and sextoy fittings, gets a virus off the MegaSupraNet and infests my oric-1
"... find out what Max Headroom thinks about it, he'll probably know the answer..."
yeah, i could imagine this being more of a boost for crypto than anything else, actually. if you can dynamically hardware-assist certain parts of your bitstream, changing 'code' and 'data' states not just on one side of a set of registers, but on the other side as well, then it is the beginning of a whole new realm of hard crypto
i have to wonder what sort of instruction sets they've got running... could I, for example, 'emulate' other architectures on it dynamically? I haven't quite penetrated their market-blurbs yet, but it sure would be nice to know what sort of apps and architectures they've already got running
Why yes, I can in fact imagine the sort of Virus that could be written.
... earth to slashdoid,
...
being code to being "on the chip" and that's sure to speed up the experienced speed.
first, where exactly is code run, if it isn't 'on a chip', and second, what? speed up the experienced speed?
you mean, as opposed to something like 'pretended speed', which is what i imagine you were using to measure your rapid desire to let your undoubtedly 'speedy' fingers get through your slashdot post without thinking
'experienced speed' indeed...
... wake me up when i can buy a thousand of them for $10 a piece ...
[okay, okay, so it'll be -hell- fun to design codecs and other protocols that can switch their chipset dynamically, yeah, but i'd need 1000's of them deployed to have a real reason to do it...]
okay, well, i consider my 'teens' to be childhood. i know some on here have yet to voyage past -V, but i did, and it was gooo-ood, so there ya go ...
I can think of about a bajillion things I would like to be able to send an SMS to ...
...
duh. "handies" really are the 'sneak' tech of the milleni..a..urm.. who owns the cell network again?
okay, forget it, i do -not- want my fridge to be SMS'able.
general electric can kiss my ass, which my toilet is also not able to send SMS's about, out and about to all and sundry, yet
Well, what can I tell you? Try googling for "entropic interface surface", "hardware out of box experience entropy", etc.
...
You'll find it, most likely, in some of the more contemporary design textbooks and/or trade publications. Entropic surfaces are pretty prevalent in design theory these days.
Sometimes the Internet isn't always leading edge of an info curve... and even when it is, there's always a bleeding edge... so I would give your google dependency a bit of a shake, though I'm a firm believer that even if you can't find it on google, you can find it with google, always
There's nothing like soaring through the sky, shitting and reliving moments of your childhood all at once.
...
I dunno. I kind of like having sex, which is similar except for the shitting part
"Bar of Soap" is a design methodology that inherently is supposed to deteriorate, collect dust, and give the device an 'outdated feel and look' within 6 months time. On OOBE, it is supposed to feel like a bar of soap, give the user an intimacy like only a bar of soap can give you, and inspire that 'oooh, intimate toy' feeling. And then 6 months later, when it starts to get 'dirty', gives the user a desire to 'replace it with something new'
The old, rugged case, even with years of grime and dirt, still didn't give you the 'replacement' feeling. BoS is a dirty consumer electronics design trick, and it sucks to see the TI's going that direction
Continuously playing 'second fiddle' to Microsoft is no way to develop software. They're counting on this factor, so why should we give it to them?
...)
Its the age-old argument though. People write code they want to write, in the OSS world, and face it: Networked User Authentication is booo-oooring.
(But then, I don't see why we don't all use RADIUS and be done with it
as my good captain friend used to say "too many priests, not enough altar girls!!!"
never knew what he meant, but i don't care. mmm... altar girls...
tell you what.
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you keep worrying about stress, and i'll enjoy life when its good, which in my opinion is 99.9% of the time for those lucky enough not to have to de-polute their water by hand every day while the sun has barely started to shine
Perhaps I would be more willing to argue on the basis of your figures, if in fact there were any.
I don't believe 3rd-world countries keep very good suicide statistics.
Stress is a human invention. I don't care how many 'high priests' of human experience choose to earn their living.
Man makes his own problems.
Need there be one?
oh. well in that case i do sincerely apologize for misunderstanding you. i shouldn't be so judgemental, also.
What happens in Bangalore, stays in Bangalore.
Not.
Thirdly, FUCK YOU.
')
you're fucking kidding me, right?
you worked at a golf course, white boys most decadent waste of time, you got paid for it and yet, somehow, now see fit to consider that your life at that point was 'stressful'?!
i know this won't score points, but i have to say it: you are a whiny bitch.
sell all your posessions and buy yourself a one-way ticket to Mexico City, is about the only bit of advice, short of brash and rude insults, i feel i could profer, even in light of the fact that i know you're not asking for any
sheesh.